Visit websites on Firefox OS

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Firefox OS helps you find your favorite websites quickly with little or no typing. Access your most often visited sites and search the web, your bookmarks and browsing history all from one place.

Access your top sites

Just open Firefox and you have access to the sites you visit most frequently. This list of sites will change as your habits change.

FxOS Top Sites

Search the web, your bookmarks and browsing history all from one place

Tap the address bar or open a new tab and select the Bookmarks or History tab to browse.

FxOS Browse Bookmarks

Start typing in the address bar and Firefox will show you a list of sites you've bookmarked or visited before along with web searches you can do. Just tap the thing you want and you're set.

FxOS awesome screen

Bookmark or add a page to your home screen

Find a page that you'd want to visit later? Bookmark it or add it to your home screen for easy access.

  1. Tap the star bookmark firefox os at the bottom of the screen.
  2. Tap either Bookmark or Add to home screen. The star will turn yellow yellow star bookmark to indicate that the page is bookmarked.

Edit a bookmark

  1. Tap the yellow star yellow star bookmark at the bottom of the screen.
  2. Tap Edit bookmark from the menu that appears.
  3. On the next screen, you'll be able to edit the page title and web address for that bookmark.

Delete a bookmark

Tap on the yellow star yellow star bookmark on the bottom of the screen, then tap Unbookmark.

Share a webpage

Send interesting webpages to friends through email or phone messaging.

  1. Tap the share button fos share on the bottom of the screen.
  2. Choose your method of sending the page: E-Mail or Messages

Switch tabs

Access your tabs by tapping on the number in the top-right corner of the screen. From there you can tap the + to open a new tab or select an existing tab.

Tab switch

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